Application of a digital computer simulation language to control hybrid computer Monte Carlo studies

Monte Carlo Radiative Heat Transfer Simulation on a Reconfigurable Computer

Recently, the appearance of very large (3 – 10M gate) FPGAs with embedded arithmetic units has opened the door to the possibility of floating point computation on these devices. While previous researchers have described peak performance or kernel matrix operations, there is as yet relatively little experience with mapping an application-specific floating point loop onto FPGAs. In this work, we ...

Monte Carlo Simulation of Computer System Availability/Reliability Models

In recent years, there has been an increased interest in evaluating the availability and reliability of computer systems. For this purpose, we have developed a state of the art modeling package called SAVE (System Availability Estimator). This package has refined numerical matrix methods for computing the dependability measures of interest. These methods do, however, have their limitations sinc...

Monte Carlo Computer Simulation Study of the Hydrophobic Effect

A series of liquid-state computer simulations has been performed on the system [(CH&laq at 25 "C as a function of the separation R between the dissolved CH, molecules. The potential functions for HzO-H20, CH4-HzO and CH4-CH4 are based on quantum-mechanical calculations of the corresponding intermolecular interactions. The simulation was carried out by the Monte Carlo method augmented with conve...

Teaching approaches to Computer Assisted Language Learning

Computers have been used for language teaching ever since the 1960's.Learning a second language is a challenging endeavor, and, for decades now, proponents of computer assisted language learning (CALL) have declared that help is on the horison. We investigate the suitability of deploying speech technology in computer based systems that can be used to teach foreign language skills. In this case,...

Patch: Analog Computer Patching from a Digital Simulation Language